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Permanent Residence

SloveniaLong-term residence

Explore the five recorded questions, answers and sources for this pathway.

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What qualifying residence period is required and when does the period begin?

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Which types of residence count fully, partially or not at all where the official rules specify this?

Residence counts under the certificate of application for the first temporary permit, temporary residence permits, the certificate of application for extension, international protection status, and a D visa if a permit was applied for before it expired; temporary residence for study counts by half (e.g. 2 years = 1 recognised year). Residence as a seasonal worker, posted worker, intra-corporate transferee or daily cross-border worker, and time serving a prison sentence, do not count.

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What absence/continuity rules affect accumulation of the qualifying residence period?

Continuity is kept if absences were each shorter than six consecutive months and total no more than ten months, or if the person was posted abroad for work during employment, regardless of those limits.

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What other major conditions apply, how is the status obtained, and what renewal, document-validity, retention or loss rules matter?

Other requirements are health insurance, sufficient means of subsistence, Slovenian language knowledge (A2 exam certificate, with listed exceptions) and no criminal record. Application is made at any administrative unit; the applicant must keep a valid temporary permit throughout the procedure (no certificate of application is issued). Only the card has limited validity and must be replaced at the administrative unit before it expires; the permit itself does not require regular renewal. The official source does not state grounds for loss of permanent residence.

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Limits of the record
  • Grounds for loss/withdrawal of permanent residence are not stated on this page

These are the answers currently recorded in the catalogue. A missing or partial answer is not an eligibility decision.

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